The FFAWC, an affiliate of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), is also one of just two places in the whole state qualified to deal with this particular kind of animal; despite her unusual appearance, the creature turned out to be a regular black bear, just under a year old. But she had a terrible case of mange.

“[The Department of Fish and Wildlife] hadn’t seen yet the bear yet,” Christine Barton, director of operations at FFAWC, told The Dodo. “When they got her, they called and they were like, ‘She’s completely naked.'”

Two volunteers generously agreed to drive the very unusual-looking bear to the FFAWC to get the help she needed on Christmas Eve — that’s why they started to call her Eve.

Fund for Animals Wildlife Center

Fund for Animals Wildlife Center

Luckily, even though mange is a painful condition caused by parasites that burrow into an animal’s skin, it is also very treatable. When Eve arrived, rescuers made her feel right at home and started giving her medicine to treat her.

“It was good that she didn’t have any secondary problems from the mange,” Barton said. “She was a good weight. And she is completely naked.”

Fund for Animals Wildlife Center

Fund for Animals Wildlife Center

After a few weeks at the center, Eve has settled into at her little apartment at the medical ward, which gives her indoor and outdoor spaces to play, as well as a little plastic igloo where she can hide. She could be the center for six months, or even a year, before she’s ready to be released.

Fund for Animals Wildlife Center

Fund for Animals Wildlife Center

Rescuers are especially relieved to be able to give Eve a place to stay since she’s actually a bit too young to be on her own, even if she were healthy. “She would normally be with her mother,” Barton said. “She obviously got separated … She’s probably been living off of scraps and trash.”

Now Eve is getting fresh grapes and other treats, as well as special baths to help soothe her skin and treatment to make the mange go away for good.

Fund for Animals Wildlife Center

“This poor black bear, stripped of almost every fiber of hair by an aggressive mange, would not have made it but for an intervention by state authorities,” said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of HSUS, told The Dodo. “We are humbled by the opportunity to care for her … We’ll be with her every step of the way, for as long as it takes for her fur to grow back. When creatures are in this kind of peril is when we rush in to help.”

Barton added that the baths are already making Eve feel much better. “It’s got to be itchy; the more the crusty skin gets off, the more the nice healthy skin underneath is exposed,” Barton said. “And then it’s just going to be a matter of hair.”

Unreal landscapes on our very much real Earth are like gates to different worlds. These places blow our minds and cross the limits of our imagination.

Here is a collection of ten most alien-looking landscapes on Earth:

Iceland

Steam, bubbles, rocks and ice combine into breathtaking, though, alien-looking landscape. This is Iceland. The island with no trees, few people and the biggest glacier in Europe called Vatnajökull. Yes! This is Europe, not the moon.

Mauritania

The Eye of the Sahara called Richat Structure has a diameter of almost 50 kilometers (30 miles). Placed in Mauritania, it is so huge it can be visible from the space. A meteorite impact? An effect of erosion? A symmetrical uplift? Or maybe three in one? Geologists do not really know how the structure was created.

Socotra Island

A long geological isolation and dry, hot and harsh climate made Socotra Island looks like a grotesque computer animation. Hyperbolic plants, funky-looking trees and pink flowers can be great inspiration for graphic designers. The island is situated in the Indian Ocean 250 km from Somalia and 340 km from Yemen and it was isolated from mainland Africa for the last 6 or 7 million years.

Spain

An ancient, acidic river in Spain – Rio Tinto – is a favourite environment for acid- and metal-loving extremophiles. It does not look like human-friendly and, in fact, it is not, but surely it could quench the Terminator’s thirst.

Yellowstone National Park

The terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, in the USA, are created by heat, water, limestone, and rock fracture. The formation is like a living sculpture that is constantly changing by flowing water and erosion. Well…the trees are very much alive as well.

Denmark

The Mars’ landscapes of Skagen in Denmark do not really fit into the image of the richest and most developed country in the world. The moving dunes and deserted beaches run into the end of Europe where the Baltic Sea clashes with the North Sea.

Bolivia

Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat, is located in southwest Bolivia. The salt desert surrounded by cactuses, volcanoes and geysers looks as if it was a remote planet, far from our solar system.

The dotted lines are all for concave folding, so you can make a careful “half-cut” and then it will be easier to fold.

Make two holes, so that the string will go through the holes once the red parts are below the yellow part. The string is knotted like your shoes’. Not a permanent knot because you want to be able to take the kitchen to other places.

Glue foil paper to the part of the cardboard closer to you. Maybe the inner side of some fried chips bags. If there’s no glue you may staple it.

The bottle with the bottom cut off (and discarded, unless you find a use for it) helps in getting more greenhouse effect. You can place it on a circle made of sand so that it’s more air-tight, so almost no heat should come out there.

Inside the “greenhouse” you could place a glass jar, with its lid. Both the jar and the lid can be painted black with some kind of paint that doesn’t produce toxic vapour when heated. Coal with rice water or something.

I do not share the optimism of the designer for being able to make this house for $300, in reality it will cost more than $500 or even closer to $900 but still it is a very good value for a house of this quality.

There are a few issues that the designer of this house did not think of, the first is that CEB is not water proof, if the house is not elevated, then the first 50cm of the walls needs to be sealed very well, either by using an alternative type of block or by using cement blocks.

But overal, this is an excellent idea, good starter to promote the awareness of possibilities using CEB in low cost housing in developing countries.

The CEB used in this design can be made using our open source CEB press machine: